Notonia| LXXI, COMPOSITA. 597 
base, terminating in a short compressed pilosulous cone; achene 
more or less cylindrical, slender, glabrous, sulcate-striate, truncate 
at the apex, subtruncate and slightly stipitate at the base ; 
pappus 2- to 3-seriate, in very closely approximate rows, setose, 
the sete numerous, setulose-scabrid; receptacle flat, alveolate, 
the alveole minutely and unequally dentate-fimbriate and each 
with the erect stipes of the achene in its centre. 
Houriia.—A very beautiful plant. In rocky elevated parts of Morro 
de Lopollo, very sparingly fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. In dry thickets about 
Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 3572. Flowers large, cinnabar- 
red. Lopollo, fl. and fr. May 1860. CoLu. Carp. 670. 
O. Hoffmann, l.c., quotes 3582 instead of 3572. 
65. SENECIO Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 446. 
1. S. coronopifolius Desf. Fl. Atl. ii. p. 273 (1798); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. p. 412. 
MossAMEDES.—A small annual herb, branched from the base; 
hranches ascending, reddish; leaves rather fleshy, somewhat viscid ; 
flowers yellow. At the sandy banks of the river Girail, then almost 
dry, at an elevation of scarcely 10 ft.; fl. July 1859. Only one specimen. 
No. 3669. 
2. S. picridifolius DC. Prodr. vi. p. 386 (1837); O.& H., dc, p.413. 
Go.tunGo ALTo.—A glaucescent, ascending herb, 2 to 33 ft. high, with 
the habit of an Emilia or Crassocephalum ; branches elongated, slender, 
quasi-scandent ; peduncles rosy ; flowers orange-yellow or of a deep 
lemon-colour. In the damp thickets of Sobato de Bumba at the river 
Casaballa, rather rare ; fl. and fr. beginning of May 1856. No. 3696. 
Huriita.—Flowers orange-yellow. In the wooded thickets of Morro 
de Lopollo; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 3694. Flowers yellow. In 
swampy places at the rivulet Catumba; fl. and fr. March 1860. 
No. 3695. 
3. §. erubescens Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 1, iii. p. 190 (1789); 
Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 363 (1865). 
Huitia.—Flowers purplish. In moist pastures from Lopollo in the 
direction of Catumba, rather rare ; fl. and fr, Dec. 1859. Afterwards 
searched for in vain. No. 3668. 
4. §. versicolor Hiern, sp. n. 
A perennial glandular-puberulous herb ; rootstock more or less 
premorse ; stem decumbent, ascending, sometimes rooting with 
adventitious fibres or branching near the base, 1 to 2 ft. high, 
leafy below, branched in the upper half and there forming a 
cymose somewhat leafy corymbose or obovoid inflorescence ; leaves 
alternate, narrowly oblong sublinear or oblanceolate, obtuse at 
the apex, somewhat narrowed to a sessile or subsessile auriculate 
clasping base, more or less coarsely or distantly toothed or sub- 
pinnatifid, thinly herbaceous, 1} to 4 in. long by } to } in. broad ; 
capitula campanulate, homogamous, discoid, $ to 2 in, long, 
usually calyculate with very few small narrow scales similar to 
the uppermost bracts on the pedicels, on unequal pedicels arranged 
in a much-branched rather lax terminal cyme 2 to 6 in. in 
